Education in Palestine

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Education in Palestine
Facts and Challenges
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A Look at Palestinian Education

• The education sector seriously suffered from
  shortage of school buildings , qualified
  personnel and appropriate pre- and in-service
  teacher training in pre-PNA era.
• Upon the establishment of MoEHE,it had to a
  number of of challenges
• Building new schools.
• Training in-service teachers to provide them
  with the
• skills needed to serve our youth in the
  modern age of
• information and technology .
• Improve education quality and higher
  educational
• standards .

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• Starting the project of the first
  Palestinian Curriculum. The first five-year plan
  was designed to accommodate all Palestinian
  children, and provide them with teachers,
  classrooms, books and quality education.
• Building a strategy for developing the
  educational infrastructure for vocational and
  technical education, the human and material
  resources, the curricula, and the legislation
  necessary for achieving these objectives

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MoEHE Organizational Strcucure
The Minister
Deputy Minister
Assistant Deputy Minister (2)
General Department (22)
Directorate of Education (18)
Schools (2337) West Bank (1755) Gaza (582)
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Education Organizational strcucure

• Education in Palestine consists of two main
  stages
• pre- school learning (Kindergarten) - 2 years
  .
• school learning stage (from 1st grade 12th
  grade) - 12 years .
• Basic education from 1st grade 10th grade
• Secondary education from 11th grade to 12th
  grade.

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Distribution of Schools in terms of Supervising
Authority

• There are three main Supervising Authorities
• 1. Governmental school.
• 2. UNRWA schools.
• 3. Private schools .

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Distribution of Schools in Jerusalem Suburbs
According to Supervising Authority
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Human Resources in the Education System

• MoEHE gives a priority to teachers in order
  to address them through taking the following
  steps
• Building teachers self- independence and
  self-confidence.
• Improving quality living standards in terms of
  salaries.
• Enhancing teachers and employees skills.
• Appointing the qualified teacher applicants in
  the right position .

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Total Numbers of Teachers It is about 50,153
distributed among Palestinian schools.
Jenin 2 327
Nablus 4 492
Salfit 1 079
Tulkarm 2 320
Qalqilya 1 515
Ramallah 4 285
Jerusalem Suburbs 1 578
Jerusalem 732
Bethlehem 2 582
Jericho 565
Hebron 4 757
South Hebron 3 206
Qabatia 2 247
Gaza 6069
North Gaza 3237
Khan Younis 3226
Rafah 2139
Middle Area Dir. 2617
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Distribution of Teachers in Jerusalem Suburbs in
terms of Their Qualification
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Distribution of Teachers in Jerusalem Suburbs
Directorate in Terms of Their Gender
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Distribution of Students in Jerusalem Suburbs
Directorate in Terms of Gender
Number Gender
13624 male
14182 female
27806 Total
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The First Palestinian Curriculum

• The first Palestinian curriculum lays its
  general foundations on the general philosophy of
  the Palestinian people principles which center
  around their heritage, religion, values,
  traditions, aspirations, and the independence
  documents1988.
• The Palestinian Curricula draw on a) a set
  of educational policy principles and b)
  educational foundations as the following chart
  shows

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Palestinian Curricula Bases
Heritage
Islamic Religion
Values
The General Foundations of Palestinian Curricula
Independence Document
Mores Tradition
Intellectual Nationalistic Found.
Social Foundation
Cognitive Foundation
Psychological Foundation
Educational Policy
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The Educational Foundations of the Palestinian
Curricula

• Intellectual and nationalistic foundation
• Social foundation
• Knowledge-based( cognitive) foundation
• Psychological foundation

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Intellectual and Nationalistic Foundations

• These Foundations hinge on the following beliefs
• Consolidating the belief in God and respect of
  man and universe.
• Consolidating our culture and respect of others
  within our culture.
• Palestine has a civilizational particularities as
  it is the home of civilizations interplay,
  intellectual openness and a cradle monotheistic
  religions.
• Palestine is a democratic, peace- loving country
  seeking international understanding and
  collaboration on the basis of equality, justice
  and human rights.

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Intellectual and Nationalistic Foundations

• Building a responsible citizen able to solve
  his\her society problems and the worlds as well
• Promoting human values and principles that
  respect human mind and encourage good manners.
• Participating actively in building and developing
  human civilization.

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Social Foundations

• These foundations are based on the following
  themes
• Maintaining the religious , social and familial
  values.
• Keeping the rule of law intact as it is a means
  for achieving justice and equality among people.
• Social equity and equality and providing equal
  learning opportunities for all Palestinians
  ,including people with disabilities.
• Constant development of Palestinian curricula to
  fit the society and labour market demands.
• Active citizens involvement ion the educational
  process through shaping the educational policies
  in the educational ,economic and civic
  institutions.

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Social Foundations

• Participating in the social and political domain
  within the Palestinian legislative system.
• Linking education with development and
  strengthening the ties between education and
  students technical and vocational training.
• Responding to the society economic needs through
  turning out well-trained workforce.
• National unity is based on social justice and
  solidarity.
• Combating unemployment and raising Palestinian
  families living standards.

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Cognitive Foundations

• These foundations seek to build a citizen able
  to
• Master the use of Arabic language , using it in
  expressing him\herself and communicating with
  others.
• Be open to worlds culture through mastering at
  least another foreign language.
• Develop his\her cultural and technological
  repertoire and cultivate his creative thinking
  and aesthetic senses as well.
• Be committed to the right heath practices.
• Preserve the natural resource and environment of
  Palestine.

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Cognitive Foundations

• Be able to assimilate the scientific facts,
  concepts, theories and use it in solving problems
  and explaining phenomena around him\her .
• Use critical thinking skills and other scientific
  methods of observation, research, discovery ,
  induction, and problem solving
• Be self reliant, able meet work demands, acquire
  necessary skills, use and develop technology and
  show interest applied sciences , math, and
  astronomy.
• Taste the aesthetic aspects of literature genre
  and art.

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Psychological Foundations

• These foundations consider the learners'
  attitudes and their developmental
  characteristics, promote self-reliance and seek
  learners who are
• Proud of their identity, nationality, religion
  and their homeland.
• Proud of their Arabic language, and aware of
  national heritage.
• Promoting individual, collective initiatives and
  safeguarding others rights and properties.

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Psychological Foundations

• Appreciative of the humanity of human beings,
  working for social progress, having positive
  attitudes toward others and committed to
  democratic principles.
• Able to be self-adaptive and acquire moral
  ,social behavior rules and apply them in
  his\her dealings with others.
• Committed to citizenship rights and their
  consequences.
• Working on having peace of mind and sustaining
  peace on the individual relations scale and on
  national ,global level.

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Principles of Curricula Educational Policy

• The correspondence between Curricula
  educational policy principles and the MoEHE
  policy can be outlined as follows
• Drawing on the Arab islamic and human heritage.
• Developing a citizens character and fostering
  his\her ability to analyze , criticize ,initiate,
  create and converse positively.
• Prepare students for life where justice,
  equality, democracy are prevalent.

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Principles of Curricula Educational Policy

• Students are the center of the learning process.
• Empowering students to master their mother tongue
  and at least another language.
• Empowering students to build their personalities
  and help them in self-learning.
• Directing the curricula to promote
  individualized, individual ,pair and group
  learning.

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Principles of Curricula Educational Policy

• Equilibrating students teaching in the subject
  matter so that students can have science,
  humanities, and technology.
• Giving students the opportunity to practice
  extracurricular activities, such as sport and
  art ones.
• Promulgating the idea of citizenship and civic
  sense in all curricula where rights are
  tantamount to duties.
• Using the educational methods of planning,
  execution and evaluation in the education system
  stages.

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Principles of Curricula Educational Policy

• Involving teachers, students, parents in making
  and applying the educational polices.
• Developing curricula which help democratize
  educational process.
• Utilizing educational research findings related
  to the advancement of curricula development.
• Involving special and inclusive education
  programmes in the educational institutions.
• Evaluating learners attained knowledge and
  skills regularly.

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The New Curriculum Vision

• The first Palestinian curriculum views
  schooling as a three-stage body outlined below as
  follows
• Grade 1-4 is considered as a preparation stage.
• Grade 5-10 is called empowerment stage.
• Grade 11-12 is thought of as an emanation
  (production) stage.

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The New Curriculum Vision

• The first Palestinian curriculum has been
  developed on the basis of new vision of education
  that retain key traditional disciplines, but add
  new aspect of education in the three
  aforementioned stage.
• This vision has to deal with the ever-present
  changes taking place locally and abroad in terms
  of democratization and information dissemination.
  
• This consideration has to do with the changes
  taking place in the Palestinian society and the
  world around us.

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The New Curriculum VisionChanges introduced to
curricula in these stages

• Grade 1-4
• Introducing English Language from the first grade
• Introducing Civic Education to prepare
  responsible citizens.
• Grade 5-10
• Introducing Technology, Applied Sciences, Health
  and Environment as part of the new Palestinian
  curriculum.
• Bringing in 4 technical subjects in the 10th
  grade.
• Civic Education is also part of this stage
  curriculum.

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The New Curriculum VisionChanges introduced to
curriculum in these stages

• Grade 11-12
• Eliminating the traditional literary and
  scientific stream.
• Increasing the share of Science and Technology
  to account for todays life needs.
• Giving more weight to Vocational and Technical
  Education in this new plan.

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